Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

While none of the prices matched my estimate, the aggregate came extremely close. It looks like this should cost about $38 less than what I pitched.

*Edit* Not a couple thousand dollars, a couple thousand pounds (it's more like $13,000).

Ordered another couple thousand dollars of coffee. I'd estimated fairly pessimistically and only a couple things came in at a higher than expected price but they're both things that I haven't had on the shelf in a while. I might be able to lower prices on a couple other things.

I might be wrong about this because I don't know all the details of their routing plans, but I think FedEx is going to fail to deliver what they're saying they plan to get to me today. It got into Wisconsin (where it's going) along the WI/MN border on Friday, then instead of continuing across the state to where I am, they sent it off in the opposite direction to North Dakota and then continued toward Montana where it is now.

The cat is taking a break from her nap.

Doing a couple of blend adjustments today. New House Blend when prepared as espresso isn't the flavor profile that I want for my espresso, but it's quite good and I'd be happy if other places served me something like that.

Cat goes purr

In a sign that I'm probably eating too much pizza, they didn't ask me for my name and number when I placed today's order.

More computer hardware (a small NAS and drives) has entered the house and the cat approves. She especially likes the accessories box that the power and network cables came in.

Still, nice to see a number for what someone might in theory want to pay for the place.

Got one of those "I want to buy your house" things in the mail. This one stands out for actually having a number on it (a little over twice what I paid for it which I assume they'd want to chip down after looking it over) but I'm not particularly interested in looking for a place to move to or dealing with the hassle of moving or helping to build up the stock of investment housing.

Spent entirely too long looking around the house for a magnifying glass before remembering that I can just use the camera on my phone to enlarge some tiny text I needed to read.

(not that I wouldn't have minded a couple more minutes of green hills zone remix)

Sometimes you have to wonder what the process is that goes into picking the little bits of music between segments on the radio. Nothing against Sonic the Hedgehog music, but what does this have to do with anything they were just talking about?

How many episodes would you have left if you removed all the rerun segments from Pink Panther?

Today's coding is exploratory in nature. Just making sure I understand what I'm trying to do, checking out some different approaches that might work before I write it for real.

Tasting production test batches of new coffees today. Before any new lot goes out for sale I sit down with a cup and make sure it's delicious. Sometimes what's very good on the cupping table doesn't translate very well to how any normal person would drink coffee so it's good to have that final check of trying the coffee prepared in the manner most customers are likely to experience it.

Power company still thinks my power is out, but it still doesn't seem to be.

Needed to dual-laptop briefly today and noticed (by accidentally messing it up) that despite the older one having a much larger power brick, the barrel connectors are the same and using the "wrong" ones works just fine.

Power company just texted that my power is out. It does not seem to be out yet.